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Sikorsky S-42, aircraft registration NC-822M, "Brazilian Clipper", Pan American Airways, 1934. During the inaugural flight of Sikorsky's previous flying boat, the S-40, on November 19, 1931, the pilot and Pan American Airways consultant, Charles Lindbergh, who considered the S-40 a monstrosity, engaged designer Igor Sikorsky in a conversation about what he thought the next airplane should look ...
The Sikorsky VS-44 was a large four-engined flying boat built in the United States in the early 1940s by Sikorsky Aircraft.Based on the XPBS-1 patrol bomber, the VS-44 was designed primarily for the transatlantic passenger market, with a capacity of 40+ passengers.
Sikorsky PS-3, serving as a transport for the Eleventh Naval district. VJ-5 D11-4 (8285), photographed in March 1930. The Sikorsky S-38 was an American twin-engined ten-seat sesquiplane amphibious aircraft. It was Sikorsky's first widely produced amphibious flying boat, serving successfully for Pan American Airways and the United States ...
The Sikorsky S-40 was an American amphibious flying boat built by Sikorsky in the early 1930s for Pan American Airways. During WW2 they were used by the United States Navy for training. This was the first of flying clippers, large flying boats of the 1930s used for long distance air travel.
Preserved Sikorsky JRS-1 that survived the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center. Hughes' S-43 N440 was the last example to fly. [9] It is now owned by Kermit Weeks, and was at the Fantasy of Flight Museum restoration facility, in Polk City, Florida awaiting reassembly and restoration, where it will never fly again.
Advertisement for Sikorsky S-42 Clipper flying boat from 1937 In the United States, Igor Sikorsky originally concentrated on the development of multiengine landplanes and then amphibious aircraft. In the late 1930s, sales declined and United Aircraft merged his division with Vought Aircraft . [ 8 ]
Samoan Clipper was one of ten Pan American Airways Sikorsky S-42 flying boats. It exploded near Pago Pago, American Samoa, on January 11, 1938, while piloted by aviator Edwin Musick. Musick and his crew of six died in the crash. The aircraft was carrying only airmail and express freight; no passengers were aboard.
The Sikorsky S-41 was an amphibious flying boat airliner produced in the United States in the early 1930s. [1] Essentially a scaled-up monoplane version of the Sikorsky S-38 biplane flying boat, [ 1 ] Pan Am operated the type on routes in the Caribbean, South America, and between Boston and Halifax .